ask for hospitality but to warn you that I may drop in on the dramatic
school the next day. It may be that I can't get away and will have to
call the whole trip off but I have been hoping to see you and finish our
conversation. I don't agree with you about COME OF AGE which I
thought as bad in conception as in execution and doomed to disaster
by what it attempted.

I must explain about Allen Scott. I had just met him and he was
telling me what he hoped to do for the poetic theatre but I'm afraid
he's too sure of himself.
3

In his response to no. 44 Eaton continued to urge Anderson to undertake a verse
play with a contemporary setting. Answering Anderson's request for instances of
contemporary verse plays, Eaton said the absence of such plays would not prove the
kind impossible, then cited several instances, including Come of Age,
Clemence Dane
play that had opened in New York on January 12, 1934, and closed after a few
performances. Eaton thought the play failed, not because it was in verse with a
contemporary setting, but because the author was not poet enough to carry out her
conception ( February 12, [1934]; T).

Thanks with all my heart for the 9 vols of Washington's writings.
They're going to help immensely. What I need most of all is the next
volume--the Valley Forge letters and orders--but if they're not
printed, I guess I'll have to get along without them. --And the Library
has been most munificent toward me--

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